- What's up, guys.
I'm Chase of Rocky Mountain ATVMC
and this is our top five new UTV accessories.
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Alright, congratulations.
You are the new owner of a UTV
whether you bought it brand-spanking new
off the showroom floor or maybe you bought one used,
we are going to show you today
what we think are the top five items
or accessories that should go on a new UTV.
Now, the truth is, there're literally hundreds
of items and accessories that you can put on these things.
You can upgrade your suspension,
you can do wheels, and tires, sound bars, light bars.
I mean, the list goes on and on.
Now, if you've asked the missus
and she gave you her blessing, you have the funds,
then absolutely go all out
and do whatever you want to these things.
You can make them as customized as you want them to be.
But in our opinion, there are five essentials
that you gotta have on these.
Things that we always put on these
probably in the first day that we ever
get a new UTV here at Rocky Mountain.
I'm gonna walk you through that list
to give you guys a good starting point.
Now, to get started, the first thing you gotta do,
right off the bat, is you gotta throw
a roof onto one of these.
Now, you got hard roofs, soft roofs.
On this side-by-side, this four-seater XP 1000
we've got the Polaris aluminum roof.
It looks good, it's sleek,
it bolts right on, it comes with all the machine,
the hardware that you're gonna need to bolt it on.
It just looks good.
So that's the aluminum roof that we have on here.
You never know when Mother Nature's gonna turn on ya
and you would be surprised how for granted
you take shade sometimes.
So definitely gotta have a roof.
Now, after you have your roof installed,
the next item that we would tell you
to go out and get is gonna be a windshield.
Whether it's a half windshield, a full windshield,
some are even made from auto glass, you gotta have one.
They do what they're supposed to do,
they're gonna block the wind.
They're also gonna give you a little bit of added protection
if you have flying objects coming at you.
You know, a lot of options there.
We always like to use
the Tusk Polycarbonate Half + 2 Windshield.
It's folding, which was nice so if you want it up
it's gonna block the wind,
give you that little added protection.
But if you don't want it up, you can just fold it down.
There's a bolt that's gonna screw it down
so it's gonna stay down,
it's gonna give you that maximum airflow.
So we typically will run the half windshield
but again, it's rider preference
if you wanna do half or full,
we got a lot of options for ya.
So after you have your windshield installed,
the third item on our list is actually
gonna be in the back and that is gonna be storage.
And there's a lot of different storage options
you have for side-by-sides.
You have door storage, you can have overhead packs,
cab packs, endless options.
But we always have either a hard container in the back,
a hard box or we have our UTV, our Tusk UTV
soft luggage back in the rear.
That one's easy to take in and out.
It's easy to pack around if you want to.
A lot of your hard boxes are machine specific
but what's nice is they bolt in,
they stay very secure.
So again, it just comes down to rider preference
but you always gotta have some sort of storage
because you're gonna have extra gear.
Your food, your drinks, gotta have a place to store it.
Now once you get the rear storage handled,
if you want to add additional storage
to the inside, you can absolutely do that.
Okay, so now that you've got storage taken care of,
the fourth item that we say you need
to go out and get is gonna be a skid plate.
Now, skid plates, you haven't got a lot of options.
The one we always run on our side-by-sides,
We run the Tusk UHMW, the Quiet Glide Skid plate.
Now, the reason we love this so much,
the reason why we made it,
is UHMW stands for ultra-high molecular weight
so it has a very low coefficient rating.
So what that means is that if you do get snagged
up on a rock or a log, that UHMW's just gonna glide over.
It's not gonna get snagged up nearly as much
as aluminum would.
It's also a lot quieter.
So it's 3/8 of an inch thick so it's very thick.
It's gonna bolt right on.
It has counter-sunk hardware so it's not gonna get snagged
up on anything and it is gonna use
some of your machine's hardware as well
so just keep that in mind.
And those are machine specific so that,
along with just about everything
we have up here and if you forget,
just enter the make, the model, the year
of your machine and that's gonna show you
the exact one for you.
But another nice feature about
that UHMW Quiet-Glide Skid Plate
is that it actually wraps up and around the frame
just a little bit here on the bottom.
We see a lot of guys who get Rock Sliders
to get that frame protection.
This isn't gonna completely replace a Rock Slider
but it does give a little bit of added frame protection
down here at the bottom.
Okay, so there's your skid plate.
Gotta have that, protect the bottom of your machine.
Now, the last item, now this is gonna seem kinda silly
but it was a toss-up between mirrors or a winch.
Now, winches are great because they can get you
out of a bad situation if you live in a snowy area
like we do here in Utah, you can use it for your snow plow
and mirrors, mirrors are gonna help you see
what's going on behind you and you're gonna be able
to see what's going on maybe with your rear passengers
if you have a rear view mirror.
So we actually decided that mirrors
would be first over a winch.
And we got a lot of different options for mirrors.
These are the Polaris mirrors that we have on this XP 1000.
They're sleek, they're good-looking, a lot of options there.
You're gonna have aluminum mirrors, some are gonna
be convex, some are gonna be traditional flat mirror.
Again, you just kinda go with what you wanna have there.
But mirrors, again, you can see what's going on
behind you so if you're in a group
it's gonna really help you keep track
of what's going on and it's really nice
if you're backing up.
You'd be surprised how many times you're backing up
and you say you know what,
I wish I had some mirrors on here.
So there it is.
Those are our top five items.
Again, you've got a roof, then a windshield,
storage in the rear, a skid plate
and lastly, gotta get some mirrors on there.
So those are our top five items
that we've put on a new UTV.
Now, if you guys think that I missed one
or if there's on up here that you think
is more important or that you would put on here first,
I would absolutely love to hear your opinion.
So make sure you guys comment below.
If you have any questions about the items
that I've talked about today, we will always
get your questions answered.
Don't forget, guys.
We have buyer's guides for your UTV.
We talk about body, we talk about protection, luggage,
and we have a lot of different options
that we show you for each one of those categories.
So if you're interested in any one of those,
just click on the link when you're done here
and we will show you just about everything
that you can do to get these set up.
I'm Chase here at Rocky Mountain
and we'll see you on the trails.
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